Lorna has been married for 1 year to James, a poor but hard-working laborer in a salt mine. Bored with her life in a shack by a canal, Lorna takes nude swims in a nearby stream, and there she is raped by an escaped murderer. Although she resists her assailant, Lorna enjoys the experience and takes the fugitive home to continue their lovemaking. They are interrupted by James, who, having been taunted by his co-workers into a fist fight over his sexual prowess with his wife, picks a fight with the fugitive, during which both Lorna and the fugitive are accidentally killed. (The film is introduced by and ends with the appearance of a prophet, who asserts that sin requires ...
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Lorna has been married for 1 year to James, a poor but hard-working laborer in a salt mine. Bored with her life in a shack by a canal, Lorna takes nude swims in a nearby stream, and there she is raped by an escaped murderer. Although she resists her assailant, Lorna enjoys the experience and takes the fugitive home to continue their lovemaking. They are interrupted by James, who, having been taunted by his co-workers into a fist fight over his sexual prowess with his wife, picks a fight with the fugitive, during which both Lorna and the fugitive are accidentally killed. (The film is introduced by and ends with the appearance of a prophet, who asserts that sin requires retribution.)
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Seventy-year-old newspaper tycoon Charles Foster Kane dies in his palatial Florida home, Xanadu, after uttering the single word “Rosebud.” While watching a newsreel summarizing the years during which Kane ... >>

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